Uncategorized - Global Sensemaking2024-03-28T22:52:10Zhttp://globalsensemaking.net/forum/categories/uncategorized-1/listForCategory?categoryId=2052744%3ACategory%3A7875&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAn experiment in community...tag:globalsensemaking.net,2011-02-25:2052744:Topic:166672011-02-25T05:21:46.140ZAdrian Pylehttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/AdrianPyle
<p>An interesting experiment has been taking place in Melbourne, Australia around the creation of generative spaces for strengthening neighbourhoods and tackling challenging issues.</p>
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<p>The experiment was started, perhaps rather unexpectedly, by a church but most decidedly it was not an attempt to try draw people “into the institution.” Instead it asked how might we create more neighbourhood spaces for authentic engagement, person to person? It worked on the assumption that we can…</p>
<p>An interesting experiment has been taking place in Melbourne, Australia around the creation of generative spaces for strengthening neighbourhoods and tackling challenging issues.</p>
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<p>The experiment was started, perhaps rather unexpectedly, by a church but most decidedly it was not an attempt to try draw people “into the institution.” Instead it asked how might we create more neighbourhood spaces for authentic engagement, person to person? It worked on the assumption that we can co-create a different type of world if we start with local conversations around issues that people care about. Based on Margaret Wheatley’s call to gather people around us who share our passion on an issue and get talking, <a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/">Adrian Pyle</a> (the Uniting Church in Australia’s Director of Relationships Innovation), convened a gathering of about twenty people he’d met who had a deep and genuine commitment to helping sustain healthy neighbourhoods. These were not just “professional” community developers but entrepreneurs, residents, change agents, artists, activists and business people. The gathered participants used the metaphor of a “U” to help describe the type of conversation they were trying to have …the idea of the “bowl” or “downward orientation” of the U encouraging participants to keep there language personal, grounded, humble, real ….and avoid postulating what we could/should/must do to others.</p>
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<p>Something must have worked in this conversation. Grass-roots community blogger and activist <a href="http://www.pigswillfly.com.au/?p=10859">Gail Plowman wrote this significant entry at her “Pigs Will Fly” blog</a>. Gail was moved by the nature of the discussion and what appeared to happen within it. She made mention of others who commented or blogged on the event.</p>
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<p>The one international participant at the event was Dave Cooper from <a href="http://shalommakers.com/about/">Shalom Makers</a> in the US, an organisation that searching for useful connections between community, organisational and spiritual development. Inspired by the event, Dave has begun to make connections into the <a href="http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=9511">MIT Community Innovators Lab and has started blogging about the experience with the first two entries available at the time of writing.</a></p>
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<p>Adrian Pyle began the process of preparing for this event with a paper exploring the resonance between spiritual, community and organisational development, and how has observed that techniques of profound change seem to represent the “U” shaped wisdom. To provide background for what it is worth, Adrian has posted that paper on his blog over several entries such as:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/2011/01/philosopy-of-adrian-part-nine-show-us.html">The metaphor of the U and Asset Based Community Development</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/2011/01/philosopy-of-adrian-part-ten-show-us.html">The metaphor of the U and a brain dominance instrument</a></p>
<p> </p> Good books/review articles on collective intelligence/social computingtag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-07-31:2052744:Topic:150532010-07-31T03:15:21.000ZMark Kleinhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/MarkKlein
Any pointers on some good review books/articles on the varieties and properties of computer-supported collective intelligence AKA social computing? I'm trying to pull together an overview of the area and the amount of material is overwhelming, so I'm looking for good summaries. I'm already aware of:<div><br></br></div>
<div>wikinomics</div>
<div>infotopia</div>
<div>the wisdom of crowds</div>
<div>here comes everybody</div>
<div>cognitive surplus</div>
<div>wealth of…</div>
Any pointers on some good review books/articles on the varieties and properties of computer-supported collective intelligence AKA social computing? I'm trying to pull together an overview of the area and the amount of material is overwhelming, so I'm looking for good summaries. I'm already aware of:<div><br/></div>
<div>wikinomics</div>
<div>infotopia</div>
<div>the wisdom of crowds</div>
<div>here comes everybody</div>
<div>cognitive surplus</div>
<div>wealth of networks</div>
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<div>Any other good sources?</div>
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<div> Thanks,</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
<div><br/></div> Online Deliberation 2010: an Issue Mapping panel?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-02-15:2052744:Topic:145512010-02-15T23:20:42.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Hi all<br></br><br></br>Some of you will have heard of the <a href="http://www.od2010.dico.unimi.it/">Online Deliberation</a> conference, which this year comes to Leeds, UK. It will pull in both human-centred technologists and policymakers interested in what the net has to offer. <br></br><br></br>David Price and I are thinking of doing a 1.5hr panel session on the emergence of Issue/Dialogue/Argument mapping as something to take note of. <br></br><br></br>We thought we'd crowdsource suggestions from you! The floor's…
Hi all<br/><br/>Some of you will have heard of the <a href="http://www.od2010.dico.unimi.it/">Online Deliberation</a> conference, which this year comes to Leeds, UK. It will pull in both human-centred technologists and policymakers interested in what the net has to offer. <br/><br/>David Price and I are thinking of doing a 1.5hr panel session on the emergence of Issue/Dialogue/Argument mapping as something to take note of. <br/><br/>We thought we'd crowdsource suggestions from you! The floor's open, but a few ideas are <br/><ul>
<li>who to get on the panel</li>
<li>what the burning questions are that we might try and tackle</li>
<li>what the takehome message is for policymakers</li>
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<br/>Your ideas welcomed :-)<br/><br/>Simon <br/> measuring signal to noise ratios using argument maps - request for pointerstag:globalsensemaking.net,2009-12-18:2052744:Topic:143722009-12-18T15:44:46.000ZMark Kleinhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/MarkKlein
I've become interested in the signal to noise ratios of different types of media and one way I've tried to measure it is simply count the number of posts it takes to represent a given item (e.g. a web forum or newspaper article) as an argument map, compared to the number of words in the item. I've done a few examples:<br />
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83 words/post for Wall Street Journal article on global warming<br />
67 words/post for UK PIRC "climate safety" report<br />
267 words/post for Italian Omniauto web forum<br />
459 words/post for…
I've become interested in the signal to noise ratios of different types of media and one way I've tried to measure it is simply count the number of posts it takes to represent a given item (e.g. a web forum or newspaper article) as an argument map, compared to the number of words in the item. I've done a few examples:<br />
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83 words/post for Wall Street Journal article on global warming<br />
67 words/post for UK PIRC "climate safety" report<br />
267 words/post for Italian Omniauto web forum<br />
459 words/post for planeta carbon offsetting web forum<br />
262 words/post for windmills web forum<br />
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The web forums, unsurprisingly, have substantially lower signal-to-noise ratios (i.e. more words per argument map entry) than the more polished articles and reports.<br />
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My question is: has anyone else done some projects where they created a map that represents all and only the content in a given article, web forum, or other corpus, so we could calculate the signal-to-noise ratio for them as well? This will enable to quantify, in some sense, one benefit of using arguments maps as a social medium - the results have a higher signal-to-noise ratio.<br />
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If you have some examples that allow calculating signal-to-noise ratios, could you let me know? I'll post whatever results I get in the GSM web site.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Mark Klein Making genuine many-to-many discussion a realistic possibility: beta testers neededtag:globalsensemaking.net,2009-10-24:2052744:Topic:140672009-10-24T10:58:53.000ZNicolas Holzapfelhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/NicolasHolzapfel
Hello everyone,<br />
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My colleague Barbara Nowacka was recently recommended to this network by David Price as a place where we might be able to find people interested in trying out our web app yoomoot.com<br />
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This is what we're all about:<br />
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For too long the Web's potential as a place of genuine mass communication has been wasted. On popular forums, mailing lists and comment threads, the virtual crowd's utterances are immediately submerged in a sea of undifferentiated text. If everyone speaks, no-one…
Hello everyone,<br />
<br />
My colleague Barbara Nowacka was recently recommended to this network by David Price as a place where we might be able to find people interested in trying out our web app yoomoot.com<br />
<br />
This is what we're all about:<br />
<br />
For too long the Web's potential as a place of genuine mass communication has been wasted. On popular forums, mailing lists and comment threads, the virtual crowd's utterances are immediately submerged in a sea of undifferentiated text. If everyone speaks, no-one hears.<br />
<br />
yoomoot changes this by creating a new kind of discussion space where large discussions can be browsed through and digested much more rapidly and logically than on standard sites. By doing this yoomoot makes it possible, for the first time in history, to have a coherent conversation between thousands of people. We hope this will eventually revolutionize the way society solves problems and makes decisions.<br />
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So, anyone interested in taking a look? Give me an email address and I'll send you an invite to the private beta site. Public market IBIS mockups and design thoughts. Feedback welcome.tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-09-18:2052744:Topic:70632008-09-18T23:32:20.000ZAdamhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/Adam
Here's the link to the mockups I made this last weekend.<br />
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<a href="http://1button.org/collective-mockups-2008-09-16.pdf">http://1button.org/collective-mockups-2008-09-16.pdf</a><br />
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I'm working on the UI for public use involving issue mapping of any kind.<br />
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I intended to post a walkthrough of the design decisions tonight, but work took long than anticipated, and it's getting late. I'll shoot for tomorrow morning.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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Adam
Here's the link to the mockups I made this last weekend.<br />
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<a href="http://1button.org/collective-mockups-2008-09-16.pdf">http://1button.org/collective-mockups-2008-09-16.pdf</a><br />
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I'm working on the UI for public use involving issue mapping of any kind.<br />
<br />
I intended to post a walkthrough of the design decisions tonight, but work took long than anticipated, and it's getting late. I'll shoot for tomorrow morning.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
<br />
Adam How are you approaching scalability?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-09-14:2052744:Topic:69212008-09-14T17:52:10.000ZAdamhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/Adam
This is a clip/paste from an email I just wrote, but if you're thinking about a global IBIS system, it might be a perspective you haven't considered.<br />
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Today's IBIS systems require a moderator to organize a map. They assume that the unit of work is creating a map or sections of a map. In a massive IBIS system, the unit of work can be a single node.<br />
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The sheer size of the group creates different opportunities for work distribution and different methods for controlling map organization. Think…
This is a clip/paste from an email I just wrote, but if you're thinking about a global IBIS system, it might be a perspective you haven't considered.<br />
<br />
Today's IBIS systems require a moderator to organize a map. They assume that the unit of work is creating a map or sections of a map. In a massive IBIS system, the unit of work can be a single node.<br />
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The sheer size of the group creates different opportunities for work distribution and different methods for controlling map organization. Think social generative programming. [1] In a massive generative system, users don't have to worry about creating well-formed maps, they can just worry about creating a single node. Instead of worrying about how moderators organize the maps, (Which is harder to scale), I'm more concerned with building an interface that leverages social norms and behaviors to produce well-structured IBIS maps from many uncoordinated asynchronous actions.<br />
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Consider also that massive systems include groups of people that don't exist reliably in business teams. Let's say that 1% of users create nodes, and 5% of users critique the nodes that others have created. [2] What sort of system will encourage 1% of users to post anything, even badly formatted single nodes, then get the 5% of critiquers to refine it over the following month?<br />
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So... in thinking about scaling the problem, I'm not thinking of scaling using the same kind of top-down organization that IBIS currently relies on. I'm thinking "How can we leverage individual and group behaviors to stimulate single node creation, iterated node refinement, and self-organizing maps that minimize the need for moderators?" That approach makes user interface design much more difficult (i.e., deceptively simple). However, if it's done correctly, scaling will be a beautiful thing to watch. And that's why I'm still working on the mockups right now. ;)<br />
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Adam<br />
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[1] Mitch Resnick's "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams" <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K8P1rX8T4kYC">http://books.google.com/books?id=K8P1rX8T4kYC</a><br />
[2] <a href="http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html">http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html</a> or see the book "Groundswell" IBIS: How far can it go?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-09-10:2052744:Topic:68612008-09-10T21:30:36.000ZAdamhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/Adam
From what I understand, IBIS is about the simplest of the complex problem visualization methods. Is there simpler?<br />
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Second, in theory, how far can IBIS go? For example, let's say that Google decided to build a collaborative sensemaking application tomorrow, and they went with IBIS as a basic structure because of its simplicity. Let's say they've theoretically *cough* got unlimited resources, talent, and marketing.<br />
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I've been pondering this, so I've got some theories, but I'll throw out a few…
From what I understand, IBIS is about the simplest of the complex problem visualization methods. Is there simpler?<br />
<br />
Second, in theory, how far can IBIS go? For example, let's say that Google decided to build a collaborative sensemaking application tomorrow, and they went with IBIS as a basic structure because of its simplicity. Let's say they've theoretically *cough* got unlimited resources, talent, and marketing.<br />
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I've been pondering this, so I've got some theories, but I'll throw out a few questions first.<br />
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* How would a global, Googlefied, version of IBIS work?<br />
* Like a wiki perhaps?<br />
* Would there be an asynchronous real-time application, along with a wiki version?<br />
* How might people locate and reference nodes in other maps?<br />
* How would it be moderated?<br />
* How would it handle similar questions if anyone could create new questions at any time?<br />
* How would similar nodes be related?<br />
* While we're at it, how would Google maps be integrated?<br />
* How would OpenSocial be integrated?<br />
* Would there be chat about nodes?<br />
* Perhaps discussions about nodes would also be in IBIS format?<br />
* How would the public have to self-organize to effectively manage the largest collection of IBIS maps in existence?<br />
* How would massive numbers of attachments be ranked?<br />
* Might resource nodes contain iframes with the actual resource instead of hyperlinks?<br />
* What about mobile?<br />
* What kind of tutorials would the public need?<br />
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Sometimes dreaming can be productive. ;)<br />
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Adam Markettag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-08-25:2052744:Topic:65312008-08-25T15:29:46.000ZAdamhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/Adam
Who is the market for collective sensemaking software? What is the impact of putting personal interconnected knowledge sharing tools in the hands of different groups of people? (e.g. the general public in various cultures, policy makers, businesses, etc.)
Who is the market for collective sensemaking software? What is the impact of putting personal interconnected knowledge sharing tools in the hands of different groups of people? (e.g. the general public in various cultures, policy makers, businesses, etc.) Coheretag:globalsensemaking.net,2008-08-25:2052744:Topic:65292008-08-25T13:43:15.000ZAdamhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/Adam
The reason I'm here in the first place is because I appreciated the intuitive visuals of compendium and CmapTools for expressing the ideas in my head. While Cohere isn't intuitive to me in the same way, I appreciate many of its features.<br />
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So, as a web designer with a background in psychology and a passion for info-vis, I'm looking for a collaborative tool that provides the simple intuitive interface of compendium/mindmanager coupled with the collaborative power of a google spreadsheet. Under…
The reason I'm here in the first place is because I appreciated the intuitive visuals of compendium and CmapTools for expressing the ideas in my head. While Cohere isn't intuitive to me in the same way, I appreciate many of its features.<br />
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So, as a web designer with a background in psychology and a passion for info-vis, I'm looking for a collaborative tool that provides the simple intuitive interface of compendium/mindmanager coupled with the collaborative power of a google spreadsheet. Under the hood, I want semantic, visualization, and GIS horsepower to help power users make sense and visualize/report on advanced topics. At the core I want a pluggable architecture that allows others to easily develop different layout structures for their maps. I want it all in a layered package with a consistent UI that feels like I'm simply opening a new mind map, then lets me produce cool looking maps to print, export, or share in under a minute.<br />
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I was considering building one myself with the Dojo Offline Toolkit, but then I ran into Cohere. While I think it's lacking in some areas, It's the closest thing I've found to that vision, so I'm impressed.<br />
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I recently ended another time-consuming project and I'm evaluating places to contribute. This list is a bit more active than the cohere list, so I figured this would be a good place to post a feeler for some higher-level info. I'm curious who here is potentially a stakeholder in Cohere, who has what roles in its development and direction, what its marketing strategy and target markets are, etc.<br />
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I'll cross-post on the cohere list.